"Collinson, in his History of Somersetshire, vol. iii. p. 620, speaking of Yatton, says, that " John Lane of this parish, gent, left half an acre of ground, called the Groves, to the poor for ever, reserving a quantity of the grass for strewing the church on Whitsunday.""

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